Fast Cutting Operations on Three Dimensional Volume Datasets

This paper appeared in the conference and proceedings of Visualization in Scientific Computing, Rostock, May 30-June 1 1994.

Abstract

This paper is concerned with high quality volume visualisation with additional emphasis on real time cutting operations for displaying surface interiors. In many applications, it is necessary for a user to interactively perform cutting operations on a volume dataset in order to see different parts of the data. A method for implementing such operations, together with a direct surface rendering algorithm, has heen developed and results have demonstrated its efficiency in comparison with existing methods.